Rewind: Episode 05

Radio Rental - Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

This episode of Radio Rental Rewind revisits a chilling true story from 'Haunted Living,' where a family experiences unexplained electrical disturbances, eerie noises, and paranormal

Key takeaways

• Unexplained electrical anomalies in a home can be interpreted as paranormal activity when all technical causes are ruled out.
• Children's perceptions of supernatural events may align across multiple witnesses, adding credibility to claims of shared experiences.

Main topics

• Haunted houses
• Unexplained electrical disturbances

Notable quotes

"I grabbed my laptop and my phone and my keys and I ran out to the garage... I can't live here anymore."

Conclusion

The family ultimately left their home due to escalating paranormal activity, but the experience

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:00) Hey, what's up guys? I'm Stephen and this is Radio Rental Rewind where we check out the archives, the scary stories we have, the greatest hits, the fan favorites. And today we're going to be talking about haunted places. So if you like that, you're going to love this. This one is from episode 34 and it's called Haunted Living. So let's check it out. Speaker 6 (0:21) Yeah. Battery looks full. Yep. And we're at 13 seconds. So just set it right on the table and leave it alone. Okay. Speaker 6 (0:33) It all started back in 2016. We had just purchased this house and moved in. We said it was our dream house. It's everything that we both had ever wanted. About two weeks after we moved in, we had an explosion on the side of our house. The air conditioning unit started a fire in between the wall of our two kids' bedrooms. Speaker 6 (1:09) We had the fire department out. We had a bunch of electricians out. And nobody could really tell us exactly what had happened. They just knew that a fire had started from a big surge of electricity that was inside the house. We were just told that we were lucky that it stopped. We figured it was just a fluke and we could start living normally again after that, now that everything had been replaced and fixed. After that, everything strange started happening. Speaker 6 (1:47) Lights flickering throughout the house. It wasn't normal flickering, like a light bulb has gone out. We'd be eating dinner and notice that the lights were flickering. We'd be up in our bedroom, the lights would flicker. We would look up when they would start flickering and the chandeliers would be swinging back and forth on their chains. We called electricians out to try and fix the problem and they replaced everything that we could think of replacing and nothing was fixing the problem. Our smoke alarms started to have a mind of their own. It wasn't just chirping like smoke alarms go off when they're losing their batteries. The smoke alarms would go off just long enough to make us think there was an actual fire. Start moving out of the room, start gathering the kids, and then the smoke alarms would just turn themselves off. I would be walking on the treadmill, and I'd be going at like a three-point speed, and all of a sudden, it would start increasing faster and faster until I was yanking the emergency chain. Speaker 6 (2:56) We would be in other rooms when our TVs would turn on or off. Everything that was happening was just unexplainable. We were trying pretty much everything we could think of to solve these issues. We spent so much money on electricians trying to get answers. We had the fire department out here inspecting everything. Speaker 6 (3:23) experts going through the house trying to figure out why our house was having the issues that it was having. And the only explanation that we were getting was that our house has electric surges from within it. Nobody can explain why. At this point, it's definitely intruded our thoughts on a daily basis, especially when noises started happening in the house as well. Footsteps that we would hear upstairs, those are hard to ignore. Speaker 6 (4:02) I'd be in the kitchen and I'd hear a big bang on the other side of the wall. It would be as loud as a chair falling over. And I'd come in here thinking I'd see a chair had fallen over and there was nothing out of place. Just hanging out in the family room with the kids and we'd hear a bunch of stomping upstairs and us trying to explain away to the kids that it's probably just the pipes upstairs. But it's a pretty new house. It's only about 20 years old. It was starting to feel like the house was alive. Speaker 6 (4:41) kind of had a mind of its own. We started talking about moving pretty early on, but Speaker 5 (4:52) we felt crazy. Are we really going to make this massive financial decision off of a few thumps and a little weird electricity? Speaker 6 (5:05) I worked from home at the time by myself while the kids were in school. I started hearing noises where I thought somebody was breaking into the house every day. I would hear a huge crash against the back window every morning at about 10 a.m. and I would come running out of the office thinking that somebody had tried to break into the back door. So I started telling my husband that I was experiencing these noises while he was at work. All the walls had either banging or sounded like something was running its hands down the wall. There were so many noises happening on three out of the four walls in the home office. I kept Speaker 5 (5:59) running out thinking that I was going to find somebody in my house. The noises just kept amplifying and getting worse and more frequent. Speaker 1 (6:09) I Speaker 5 (6:10) felt like I had to get out of the house. I grabbed my laptop and my phone and my keys and I ran out to the garage and got in the car and drove away from my house to a different part of the neighborhood and just started crying and telling my husband, I can't live here anymore. Speaker 5 (6:34) I don't want to do this. I'm sick to death of this. I can't focus. It's making me feel crazy. Speaker 6 (6:50) Everything crossed my mind from maybe the former owner still had a key. They were trying to get in. I couldn't figure out what was happening. Shortly after that, my husband also started working from home. Speaker 6 (7:10) He started thinking that someone was breaking in to the point where he started taking a knife in the morning before he would go downstairs to work. Speaker 5 (7:20) There was so many times he came running upstairs thinking that somebody was here. There was. It Speaker 6 (7:32) was just his turn, I guess, to start hearing all of the same things that I was hearing. If my husband and my kids weren't hearing what I was hearing, I would be seriously questioning my sanity. They did hear a lot of stuff. We explained a lot of things away to our kids. Up until this point, my husband and I had been really careful. We still are to this day. We have an explanation for everything so that they don't Speaker 5 (8:02) grow up thinking that they live in a haunted house. They Speaker 6 (8:09) had never heard us talk about any of this stuff. We always did it when they were not home or asleep. The kids were in the basement. At this time, they were about five and six years old. They had come running upstairs. Mom, Mom, Speaker 5 (8:27) we saw something in the basement. My heart drops. Speaker 5 (8:34) I said, what did you see in the basement? And they said, we saw a shadow figure. Speaker 6 (8:40) My blood goes cold. What did it look like? Speaker 5 (8:52) The older one kind of motions with his hands. It was like a shadow, but I couldn't really see through it. I said, what did it do? He said, it just kind of glided across the room, and he showed me with his feet. And then it went through me, and then it went into the wall with an outlet. Speaker 5 (9:21) You didn't see a shadow Speaker 6 (9:22) person. That was just your shadow in the basement. They were adamant that they saw it. So I took the older one downstairs first. I left the little one upstairs Speaker 5 (9:34) and said, show me where you saw it. Retrace the path of this shadow person in the basement. And I said, interesting, you know, trying to keep it pretty calm, neutral. I took him back upstairs and then I took the younger one downstairs and said, show me where you saw this thing. Speaker 5 (9:59) And so the little one shows me the exact same path and the exact same wall. And I just take him back upstairs and said, well, if you ever see it again, let me know. But I just think you saw your shadow. They didn't talk about it again until within the last three months. He said that he saw a shadow figure again, only this Speaker 6 (10:25) time he said he opened the basement door and it was standing at the bottom of the basement stairs. He opened the door and saw